Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Joint VOWS/Clackamas County Warrant Operation Closes 75 Warrants

Upper Marlboro, MD…
On Wednesday, October 16th the Prince George’s County Office of the Sheriff
along with local law enforcement agencies conducted a warrant sweep that
combined the multi-week Violent Offender Warrant Suppression (VOWS) operation
with the 11th Annual National Family Violence Apprehension Detail. The
joint operation resulted in 65 arrests to close 75 outstanding warrants.

Ten
teams comprised of Sheriff’s Deputies and law enforcement personnel from the Maryland
State Police, Prince George’s County Police Department, Charles County
Sheriff’s Office, United States Marshals Service and Maryland-National Capital
Park Police attempted warrant service at 217 addresses in the County.

“It
made sense to combine the VOWS operation with the Clackamas County Domestic
Violence Warrant Sweep” said Captain William Mints, Assistant Bureau Chief of
Field Operations. “Domestic Violence is a crime of violence and violent
offenders were the focus of VOWS. Once again, we have had an outstanding result
because we had the support of other local and state law enforcement partners.”

Among
the charges in the 65 arrests, 4 were for First Degree Assault, 32 for Second
Degree Assault and 7 were Domestic Violence related.

Lieutenant
Colonel Regina Taylor, Bureau Chief of Field Operations said the VOWS operation
has been a tremendous success. “We look forward to sharing the final results
with the Governor’s Office

on
Crime Control and Prevention (GOCCP) in the coming weeks. The funding made this
operation possible and the results are more violent offenders off the street; that’s
success by any measure.”

For
more information contact the Communications and Public Affairs Division at
301-780-7354. ###